Happy Family Bible Seminar

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Seminar
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Seven Ways to Manage Stress and Enjoy Inner Peace

• What is stress?

Stress is the bodys physical, mental, and
emotional response to a demand, which is called a
stressor. Some amount of stress is useful, but
too much is harmful.
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Stress Types

• Negative stress can result from loss of job.
• Positive stress can result from job promotion.

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• Light stress can result from running from the
  rain.
• Severe stress can result from an illness like
  cancer.

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Negative Stress Symptoms
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• Tension Headaches
• Over anxiety
• Loss of appetite
• Overeating
• Insomnia

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To deal with stress effectively, I must first
identify its source.
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Why are you downcast, o my soul? Why so
disturbed within me?.Psalm 435, NIV
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Lifestyle

• Adequate sleep
• Healthy diet
• Avoid caffeine, tobacco alcohol
• Regular exercise

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Everyone who competes for the prize is temperate
in all things... I discipline my body and bring
it into subjection.1 Corinthians 925,27
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Breathe Deeply O you dry bones, hear the word of
the Lord. Behold, I will cause breath to enter
into you, and you shall live Ezekiel 374,5.
Lets Practice!

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Relax Muscles
And I will lay sinews upon you and you shall
live Ezekiel 376
Lets Practice!
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• Life is pressurized, but you can join healthy
  activities instead.
• Replace preasure with plessure.

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Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts
David would take his harp and play. Then
relief would come to Saul he would feel better,
and the evil spirit would leave him. 1 Samuel
1623
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For he is the kind of man who is who is always
thinking about the cost. Proverbs 237
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• When I receive a
• negative message,
• I have the freedom
• to decide
• a) Empower it to become my master (stressor)
• b) Imprison it to become my slave!

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The Stress Equation
Seven Ways to Manage Stress and Enjoy Inner Peace

• Activating Agent My Thinking
• My Feelings

• I Receive I Think I Feel

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• When a Negative Message passes through Negative
  Self Talk it produces Negative Feelings.
• When a Negative Message is channeled through
  Positive Self Talk, it produces Positive Feelings!

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A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a
crushed spirit dries up the bones. Proverbs 1722
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Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the
altar and there remember that your brother has
something against you,
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leave your gift there in front of the altar.
First go and be reconciled to your brother then
come and offer your gift. Matthew 523-24
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Talk with a Supporter. A sensitive support
system helps to relieve stress.
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But David took an oath and said, Your father
knows very well that I have found favor in your
eyes, and he has said to himself,
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Jonathan must not know this or he will be
grieved. Yet as surely as the LORD lives and as
you live, there is only a step between me and
death. 1 Samuel 203
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Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and
horror has overwhelmed me. So I said, Oh, that
I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be
at rest.Psalm 555,6
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Be still, and know that I am GodPsalm 4610
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Now in the morning, having risen a long while
before daylight, He went out and departed to a
solitary place and there He prayed.Mark 135
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Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified
it, because in it He rested from all His work
which God had created and made.Genesis 23
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In the beautiful Garden of Eden free from
strain and stress Adam and Eve joined their
Creator in a Sabbath Celebration of joy and peace.
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Many think the Sabbath rest was only given to the
Jews
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• Adam was not a Jew so it could not be Jewish!
• Like Marriage and family, it was given to Adam
  for the whole human race!

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Jesus said, The Sabbath was made for man. Mark
227 Just as marriage was made for man, so the
Sabbath was made for man!
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Black man or White man, Sabbath was made for man!
Rich man or poor man, Sabbath was made for man!
Englishman or Hispanic man, Sabbath was made for
man!
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Created by Christ, its Christian!
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Off to the Honeymoon!
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• Adam and Eves marriage was on Friday, the next
  day was Sabbath.
• Friday night was the first night of their honey
  moon.
• Sabbath was the first full day the couple spent
  together.
• So this is a special day for Gods Happy Family!

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Which day is Christs Sabbath? Lets check
the EASTER WEEKEND Luke 2353 to 241
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Christs Resurrection
Christs Entombment
Events Christs Crucifixion
We say Good Friday
Easter Sunday
Saturday
First Day of the Week
Bible says Preparation Day
Sabbath
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Prescription for Stress!

• For one full day each week, I put away lifes
  cares job, school, business.
• I dont talk or even think about them! They are
  in Gods hands!

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• My mind gets a weekly holiday experiencing
  freedom from stress.
• After such renewal, I am ready to face the
  challenges of a new week.
• This renewal comes with worship, prayer and
  praise.

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• Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into
  His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and
  bless His name. For the Lord is good! Psalm
  1004,5
• Great peace have those who love Your law, and
  nothing causes them to stumble. Psalm 119165
• You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind
  is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.
  Isaiah 263

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• GOD HAS CHOSEN!
• I cannot chose a day of rest. God has
  already chosen -- the 7th day!
• I cannot bless a day.
• Only God can bless.
• And He already has!

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He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.
Numbers 2320
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Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the
Sabbath. Mark 228
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20 of Christs recorded miracles were done on
Sabbath! On that day, He delighted to relieve
suffering!
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• Paralyzed for 38 years, the man took up his bed
  and walked! John 51-15
• The demoniac got deliverance! Come out of him!
  said Jesus.Mark 121-28

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• Crippled and bent for 18 years, the woman was
  loosed. Luke 1310-17
• Blind from birth, the man declared, I was blind,
  now I see. John 91-41

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Christ made it, and He kept it.
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So He came to Nazareth, where He had been
brought up. And as His custom was, He went into
the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to
read. Luke 416
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I will follow Thee,my Savior.
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If you love Me, keep My commandments. John
1415
Hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign
between Me and you, that you may know that I am
the LORD your God.Ezekiel 2020
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If you love Me, keep My commandments. John
1415
Hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign
between Me and you, that you may know that I am
the LORD your God.Ezekiel 2020
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• The Sabbath is a sign of love and peace between a
  man or woman and Jesus.

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Peace!
There comes to my heart one sweet strain, A glad
and a joyous refrain I sing it again and
again, Sweet peace, the gift of Gods love.
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Through Christ on the cross peace was made, My
debt by His death was all paid No other
foundation is laid For peace, the gift of Gods
love.
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